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RE: [Manet-dt] Generalised OLSR packet/message format comments - msg-semantics

"Dearlove, Christopher (UK)" <chris.dearlove@baesystems.com> Wed, 01 February 2006 09:54 UTC

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Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:28:00 +0000
From: "Dearlove, Christopher (UK)" <chris.dearlove@baesystems.com>
Subject: RE: [Manet-dt] Generalised OLSR packet/message format comments - msg-semantics
To: Ian Chakeres <ian.chakeres@gmail.com>, Thomas Clausen <T.Clausen@computer.org>
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> One last comment. I would like to see several of the msg-semantic bits
> reserved for msg-type specific bits. 4 ideally, but I would probably
> settle for 2. For example in DYMO, RREQ messages could use a few of
> these bits for its own purpose.

I think this is exactly contrary to the common format philosophy
(see my last message) and is not a good idea. If an RREQ needs
RREQ specific information, the place for that is a message TLV.


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